The High & Lonesome Ramblin' Bluegrass Thread

[lusidghost]

If a banjo wasn't affiliated with old timey rural music, it would just be another stringed instrument that made a specific type of sound. It's funny how a violin is a violin in all other music except country and bluegrass where it's a fiddle.

If you can free yourself from the visual influence of Deliverance, then it just becomes music.

 

[lusidghost]

Love some bluegrass!

The dude wearing fur with the dog is the coolest looking white dude I've ever seen.

 

[Stardog FPV]

If a banjo wasn't affiliated with old timey rural music, it would just be another stringed instrument that made a specific type of sound. It's funny how a violin is a violin in all other music except country and bluegrass where it's a fiddle.

If you can free yourself from the visual influence of Deliverance, then it just becomes music.

Fun Fact: the banjar was invented in Africa and refined on the plantations by slaves to become the banjo, and if you tell a classic violinist he's playing a fiddle he'll likely consider it an insult lol.

 

[injinji]

Fun Fact: the banjar was invented in Africa and refined on the plantations by slaves to become the banjo. . . . . .

Lots of different peoples were sent to the sugar islands. They were a melting pot of African music 100 years before America started importing large numbers of slaves.

 

[Stardog FPV]

Bands like the dead south and Billie Strings are the bees knees:

 

[lusidghost]

 

[DCcan]

 

[lusidghost]

This is pretty good.

 

[lusidghost]

I'm getting this Martin MMV delivered tomorrow and I feel like a kid on Christmas eve.

 

[lusidghost]

 

[lusidghost]

^I'm going to try to catch that Tony Rice fest.

 

[Stardog FPV]

I'm getting this Martin MMV delivered tomorrow and I feel like a kid on Christmas eve.

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Looks just like my Alvarez!

 

[lusidghost]

Looks just like my Alvarez!

My #1 guitar for the past 20 years has been this classical Alvarez.

 

[lusidghost]

 

[lusidghost]

I've never heard this version of this song. Heavy.

 

[injinji]

I've never heard this version of this song. Heavy.

His singing sounds a lot like Jerry on this one.

 

[injinji]

 

[lusidghost]

 

[Dorian2]

I was listening through some of the newer posts and occurred to me one of the reasons I like it. Bluegrass is steeped in my own family's traditions.

 

[lusidghost]

Bluegrass is steeped in my own family's traditions.

I really is. Literally and figuratively. I think because it is old timey and niche, it has the potential of becoming extinct very easily. It has been fighting for survival since the beginning. The tradition is all that keeps it alive. The community is directly connected to its origins. and while there is evolution taking place, it moves very slowly.